1897 Movies

Bustle in the square.

Traffic in the street.

The victim is lying on a trolley car fender. Ambulance drives up and the injured man is removed in a stretcher.

Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

Children jump over each others’ backs in two lines advancing toward the camera.

Most movie fans know that the first filmmakers liked to shoot trains entering stations. This example by Sussex film pioneer George Albert Smith illust...

This single camera position film shows an officer and six enlisted men of the army as they demonstrate the assembly drill of a gatling gun. See also:...

At first this looks like another of those innumerable fire brigade movies of the era in which you saw the horses charging pellmell out of the firehous...

A shot of a street in Lyon, people passing, horses etc

“These views were taken in a village of Aschantis which was set up in Lyon at the time of the Exhibition. All these views are very interesting; their...

Dockworkers load a barrel onto the platform of a wagon.

"Musicians are seated, playing, while the graceful Dolorita dances. It is the Danse-du-Ventre, the famous Oriental muscle dance."

A Japanese family having tea.

In rows and each equipped with a stick, gymnasts perform various group movements.

La Poupée is a series of three short films inspired from a comedy in four acts of the same name by Edmond Audran, performed for the first time at the...

A children’s procession that is part of the Maienzug, a festival solemnly marking the end of the school year in Aarau.